Clay Aiken – Smiles Are Contagious!

Today is  Share A Smile Day…Yep, it’s the real thing!  Even though devoting a whole day to smiling might be a bit corny, you must admit…you always feel better when someone flashes you a happy smile.

While looking for information on smiles, I came across a great blog.  Written by Michelle Coveny, the site is titled The Rising Hollywood.com    The following facts about smiling came from Michelle.

Everyone loves a good smile – 15 facts about smiling: 

  1. Forcing yourself to smile can boost your mood: Psychologists have found that even if you’re in bad mood, you can instantly lift your spirits by forcing yourself to smile.
  2. It boosts your immune system: Smiling really can improve your physical health, too. Your body is more relaxed when you smile, which contributes to good health and a stronger immune system.
  3. Smiles are contagious: It’s not just a saying: smiling really is contagious, scientists say. In a study conducted in Sweden, people had difficulty frowning when they looked at other subjects who were smiling, and their muscles twitched into smiles all on their own.
  4. Smiles Relieve Stress: Your body immediately releases endorphins when you smile, even when you force it. This sudden change in mood will help you feel better and release stress.
  5. It’s easier to smile than to frown: Scientists have discovered that your body has to work harder and use more muscles to frown than it does to smile.
  6. It’s a universal sign of happiness: While hand shakes, hugs, and bows all have varying meanings across cultures, smiling is known around the world and in all cultures as a sign of happiness and acceptance.
  7. We still smile at work: While we smile less at work than we do at home, 30% of subjects in a research study smiled five to 20 times a day, and 28% smiled over 20 times per day at the office.
  8. Smiles use from 5 to 53 facial muscles: Just smiling can require your body to use up to 53 muscles, but some smiles only use 5 muscle movements.
  9. Babies are born with the ability to smile: Babies learn a lot of behaviors and sounds from watching the people around them, but scientists believe that all babies are born with the ability, since even blind babies smile.
  10. Smiling helps you get promoted: Smiles make a person seem more attractive, sociable and confident, and people who smile more are more likely to get a promotion.
  11. Smiles are the most easily recognizable facial expression: People can recognize smiles from up to 300 feet away, making it the most easily recognizable facial expression.
  12. Women smile more than men: Generally, women smile more than men, but when they participate in similar work or social roles, they smile the same amount. This finding leads scientists to believe that gender roles are quite flexible. Boy babies, though, do smile less than girl babies, who also make more eye contact.
  13. Smiles are more attractive than makeup: A research study conducted by Orbit Complete discovered that 69% of people find women more attractive when they smile than when they are wearing makeup.
  14. There are 19 different types of smiles: UC-San Francisco researcher identified 19 types of smiles and put them into two categories: polite “social” smiles which engage fewer muscles, and sincere “felt” smiles that use more muscles on both sides of the face.
  15. Babies start smiling as newborns: Most doctors believe that real smiles occur when babies are awake at the age of four-to-six weeks, but babies start smiling in their sleep as soon as they’re born. (via)

 “Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing” – Mother Teresa

What Makes You Smile?

 

 

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15 thoughts on “Clay Aiken – Smiles Are Contagious!

  1. Little kids laughing – just makes my day!!!!! Thanks for all the smile facts, put a smile on my face =)

  2. I think of all the blessings I have and it makes me smile. One thing is for sure, Clay’s smile is extremely contagious! 😉

  3. Clay always makes me smile. I’m sure I make others smile when they see me singing along to Clay’s music while driving my car!

  4. I smile all the time. I'm sure it's annoying to some people but I'm happy. Oh…and seeing Clay Aiken makes me smile even more…probably using those 53 muscles at that time…lol

  5. Clay definitely makes me smile, Particularly when he or someone else messes up – and he reacts to it in an innocent or snarky way. Always so funny. My biggest smile though is when Clay dances. I absolutely love it and it just makes my day.

  6. I really enjoyed todays blog. Of course Clay makes me smile. Figure skating is another thing that makes me smile. When I can combine my two loves I'm in heaven.

  7. I adore Clay and look forward to seeing or hearing something about him every day. Hoping he is the next Celebrity Apprentice!!

  8. Looking forward to Clay's cd of 'Steadfast' which I have ordered, love his singing, has a wonderful voice and lookiing forward to more albums from him in the future, have all his albums so far.

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